The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-09
NOBLEMEN AS BOXERS.
THE MANLY ART MADE A STUDY BY
MANY OF THEM.

The Marquis of waterford's Novel Fight
with a Cabman-An EarI's Fight with
Band of MISUNDERSTANDING Them
Down Like Ninepins.
The late marquis of Waterford, among
numerous accomplishments, excelled as
boxer, and of his aptitude in this art he
was Justly proud He never picked his
men; he used to fight coal beavers, dust
men, hodmen, fellowship porters and
others of that ilk, and then give them a
Bank of England plaster, and if he ever
was caught mapping and met superior
bruiser great was his superiOr's reward.
But sometimes an insolent jarvey OBJ
tanned all the thrashing and no reward,
as the following anecdOte will show:
The marquis on one occasion hailed
cab rather early in the morning, and di-
rected the cabman to drive him to St
James Square, the residence of his uncle,
the Archbishop of Armagh. When he ar
rived at his destination he handed the
cabman half q sovereign, but cabby, in the
most insOlent manner, demanded more.
"An right" said the marquis, and, slip
ping in the house by means
Of latch key, he quickly
donned his uncles episcopal robes.
and, returning to the door, quietly asked
what the cabman required. The jarvey,
not recognizing the marquis, and think
ing to brighten the clerical swell, gave
him some choice billingsgate, whereupon
his lOrdship in his new character knocked
Cabby down. Amused at the idea of hav-
ing to fight with parson, cabby sprang
up and went for his man in good style;
but the sham prelate foiled every blow,
and returned his deliveries with such
vfgor that at last the cabman, thoroughly
beaten, and believing that he had the
devil in lawn sleeves for an oppo-
nent, jumped up on his cab and was glad
to shook it."
The prince of Chatelherault IS brulser
of the Waterford stamp. Over and over
again in the old days of Haymarket roy
steering he has been known to throw of
his coat and go for his man in true pugll-
istic fashion, and many tales are told OF
his grace's excellence in the art
With the exception, however, of one or
two members of the Upper House, we
thought boxing an accomplishment long
forgotten by the peerage, but the follow
ing anecdote will show otherwise: a few
days'agO a noble earl, an apt pupil of a
West End professor of boxing, had been
dining rather freely at one of the clubs,
and as he passed along the strand in even
ing dress he came in collision with
sweep just emerging from Drury court
who. to steady himself, placed his sOoty
hands on his lordship's irreprOachably
white shirt front To hit out at the sweep
vas the nobleman's first impulse, and
landing on chummy's nasal organ, the
carmine and black were soon mingling.
Nothing daunted, the sweep pulled him
self together and tried all he knew to get
ON equal terms, but in a short time ne was
so battered and bruised that his pals from
tho "Iane," who had now mustered
strongly, came up, and it was case of
ore down the other come on. Stimu-
"a ed, no doubt, by the bottle or two OF
port he had imbibed, his lOrdship knocked
the pride of Drury lane down one after
the "ther like nine pins, calmly asking,
like 1itziames of Roderick Dhu's band,
for one and all to. come on. We don
know how it might have Jared with my
lord mad not policeman arrived on the
scene and dispersed the threatening
crowd; while his lordship, feeling that be
had earned drink, sauntered into tav-
ern close at hand and partOOk of a modest
Cuencher Pail Mall Gazette.